妖
yāo HSK7

strange

妖 yāo
monster verb
(bound form) a monster; a goblin; an evil spirit or demon often capable of taking human form
evil
(bound form) wicked; weird; evil or misleading (of speech, doctrines, etc.)
enchanting
(bound form) beautiful; enchanting; seductive; charming
anomaly
(literary) an unnatural or anomalous phenomenon; a portent of evil
gaudy
(bound form) overly gaudy; coquettish; indecent in dress or behavior (often referring to women)

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,869th most common 43.1 per million
Movie subtitles
2,181st most common 14.4 per million appears in 5% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
7.75 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
26.3 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+5996

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)